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The leaky roof atop the Hoyle Elementary School in Swansea, Mass., could be replaced with a more durable system for $568,918 as the current structure's seams failed due to frequent foot traffic. The roof system, currently under consideration, would have four plies and gravel surfacing, and it would carry a 20-year warranty. A less expensive option would involve a built-up system on the main roof and single-ply on the school's upper roofs.

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A round of funding led by HealthX Ventures has brought in $550,000 for EnsoData, a Madison, Wis.-based health care data software firm. The company will use the proceeds as working capital and to expand its data science and sales teams.

A roofing project to install modified bitumen roofing for will soon begin at the Frazier High School in Pennsylvania and is expected to cost $1,590,646. The school board's contract award to Miller Thomas Gyekis has drawn criticism from another roofing company, whose owner said it submitted a lower bid. The school board countered that it did not consider that bid because it lacked a proposal for the modified bitumen-roofing system.

The architectural shingles on the roof of the Town Hall building in Lansing, N.Y., have begun to curl and allow leaks after only 14 years. "That is disconcerting as well, in my eyes ... Shingles are typically warrantied to 25 to 30 years, especially architectural shingles, which are on this building," said Lansing Councilman Doug Dake. Officials are now considering a metal roof, either with screwed-on applied fasteners or a standing seam roof.

Two North Carolina lawmakers announced the awarding of $550,000 in federal funding to Wake Health Service, a nonprofit community health facility, as part of a bill passed by the state's House of Representatives. The nonprofit community health facility will use the funding to buy hardware and software for an electronic medical record system.

Saying the FCC "acted arbitrarily and capriciously," a federal appeals court panel has reversed the agency's $550,000 indecency fine against CBS for Janet Jackson's "wardrobe malfunction" during the 2004 Super Bowl halftime show. The court found the FCC disregarded its almost 30-year-old policy of handling alleged incidents of indecency. "Like any agency, the FCC may change its policies without judicial second-guessing," the court wrote. "But it cannot change a well-established course of action without supplying notice of and a reasoned explanation for its policy departure."